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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
How DC is Taxing the Country
reason for optimism, too. Business leaders as well as state and local policymakers have a major role to play in restoring competitiveness—and there are promising signs of change at the local and state level. The issue is the role of the federal government in restoring... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Gene Markowski (MBA 1973)
in 2013. I was stationed in a tank unit out in Colorado Springs when the Vietnam War started up. I didn’t think I wanted to be in a tank in Vietnam, so I volunteered to go to flight school. Six months later, I was in combat. I was a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Europe Business Conference Forecasts the Future
memory of war on one's home soil. We know how tragic history can be, and we understand the fragility of society." A native of France who relocated to New York last summer, Hannezo recalled John F. Kennedy's famous declaration, "Ich bin... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Charity
encouraged theft. Despite the opposition, they persisted: the mont de piété of Paris survived the French Revolution and two World Wars to become the Crédit Municipal of today and Mexico City’s Monte de Piedad is still in operation. The... View Details
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Stock Exchanges - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Vanity and Virtue Misers, Moneylenders, and Thieves Money Devil Biblical and Mythological Scenes Love and Money Politics and War Louis-Philippe Speculation and Credit Bankers, Financiers, and Statesmen Stock Exchanges printer-friendly... View Details
- 30 Jan 2009
- News
What’s It Worth to You?
ethical component to compensation and, if so, does it matter? General David Petraeus, who holds a doctorate from Princeton, oversees wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is responsible for the lives of tens of thousands of war-zone servicemen... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
ability to enforce the terms of foreign loans often led to pitched political battles of will with the implicit threat of war as the only recourse for creditors. Between the end of World War II and the 1970's... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro
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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator I n the 1930s, investments were generally targeted for trusts, pensions, and other conservative funds rather than emerging industries. 32 The urgent military needs during World War II had fostered... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
phenomenon in the United States. In the years leading up to the Great Depression and World War II, there was a very high percentage of recent immigrants in the United States, and home ownership was beyond the means of most. Before World... View Details
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Linda Leung
In her junior and senior undergraduate years, Linda Leung fulfilled the dream job of nerds, or at least Star Wars enthusiasts, worldwide: she developed simulation models for ion propulsion engines, the real-world technology behind the... View Details
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Misers, Moneylenders, and Thieves - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Vanity and Virtue Misers, Moneylenders, and Thieves Money Devil Biblical and Mythological Scenes Love and Money Politics and War Louis-Philippe Speculation and Credit Bankers, Financiers, and Statesmen Stock Exchanges printer-friendly... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Flight Path
were moments of magic that reminded me of Star Wars and the video games I played growing up,” he says. But it’s a long way from amateur get-togethers to a TV-ready, professional sport. Backed by $12 million in venture capital (a figure... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
Refugees' Attitudes Towards Compromise and Civil War Termination By: Fabbe, Kristin, Chad Hazlett, and Tolga Sınmazdemir Abstract— Civilians who have fled violent conflict and settled in neighboring countries are integral to processes of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!
reducer but superior marketing and sales made Lipitor number one. And in the movie world, think of the magical and memorable special effects in the Star Wars series. Are there additional criteria that define a blockbuster in your mind?... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Politics and Patriotism in Small-Town America: Confessions of a Plain-Talking, Independent Mayor by Richard Muti (MBA ’71) (WingSpan Press) While Bullets Fly: The Story of a Canadian Field Surgical Unit in the Second World War by Ian... View Details
Keywords: Management
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Pre-Industrial Credit in Practice
that a lack of hard currency did not cripple long-distance trade. Between the 1720s and the 1760s, Thomas Hancock-uncle of Revolutionary War patriot John Hancock-deployed a wide variety of credit transactions to build one of the largest... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Feedback
Military Memories Re: The Military and the MBA Photo courtesy of Phil Curtis As a member of the Class of 1974, we were thrown into the midst of the travails of the Vietnam War and were populated by a number of patriotic officers serving... View Details
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Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
TV Bibliography From the Director Site Credits Visit & Contact Us Special Collections Baker Library Search Search Search U.S. Steel Exhibition Labor Practices Labor Practices: Header Labor Practices Labor Practices: Intro The decade following the View Details
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Commencement 2020 Address | About
about to take on new leadership roles and attack big problems at a time when society desperately needs leaders. Seventy-three years ago, at Harvard’s Commencement ceremony, General George Marshall announced a plan to rebuild the European economy after the devastation... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
preservation. And Dallas Smith, head of a regional coalition of First Nations, thanked the other speakers for their efforts to make his community a better place to live. This scene seemed impossible when negotiations began in 1996. At the time, the four groups were in... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous